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Poster: | direwolf0701 | Date: | Sep 23, 2009 9:46am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Happy vernal equinox (Dead related) |
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Poster: | jglynn1.2 | Date: | Sep 23, 2009 9:54am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Happy vernal equinox (Dead related) |
wah wah wah mosquitoes flies cold mud wah wah wah
Least we don't have big earthquakes, drought and wildfires
:)
P.S. Hope all you Cali Deadheads are safe from the fires - that is some bad sh*t
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Sep 23, 2009 11:51am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Happy vernal equinox (Dead related) |
Here is my one observation for all of you that say we can't cut it: why should we? And, I couldn't cut the complete absence of Mexican food! That was more than 20 yrs ago, so might be better nowadays...
And, recall jgl, over a bit to the East of CA, we have no quakes, no fires, no real problems that do afflict just about everywhere else...other than broiling...
Finally, if it is so great, explain this observation (I counted...the % is damn close to right on): 92% of the folks you meet in ME are counting (literally--marking it on calenders and such) the days til they retire and move south (FL, TX, AZ or CA). The other 8% will NOT stop talking about how great ME is, and that everyone else is just a wimp (hmm...sounds like some above, eh?), but after you hear their pitch, which is the same day in and day out, you start to wonder--who are they trying to convince about how great it is? Me? Or themselves?
JK, all of you cold climate types (well...sorta kidding)...I love you all, and know there are a few fun things to do up there...we loved cross country skiing, and if I could watch Dire break a leg or two, it might be fun to try it again.
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Poster: | Mandojammer | Date: | Sep 23, 2009 1:49pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Happy vernal equinox (Dead related) |
This post was modified by Mandojammer on 2009-09-23 20:49:59
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Poster: | robthewordsmith | Date: | Sep 23, 2009 2:59pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Happy vernal equinox (Dead related) |
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Poster: | Mandojammer | Date: | Sep 23, 2009 3:16pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Happy vernal equinox (Dead related) |
I've already scouted the Isle of Arran - they just recently reopened their distillery and the whisky's not too bad. It has a subtle sweetness in it that makes me think of a Macallan 18 with the sherry finish.
Yeah, I could make that happen. As far as miserable Scot bastards - well, you take the bad with the good.
Besides, we'd all get a good laugh watching Dire with the sheep.........
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Poster: | jglynn1.2 | Date: | Sep 23, 2009 3:48pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Happy vernal equinox (Dead related) |
Dire with the sheep - "Gee fellas what kinda cow is this? Looks a little small and its got fuzzy hair"
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Poster: | robthewordsmith | Date: | Sep 23, 2009 3:37pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Happy vernal equinox (Dead related) |
Just as an FYI - Dire is cows (though I don't give him much of a chance with those mean long-horned Highland cattle) and I am sheep - at least according to SDH, but I put the lawyers on to him and took out an injunction, which is why you haven't seen him around here for a while...
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Poster: | Mandojammer | Date: | Sep 23, 2009 3:44pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Happy vernal equinox (Dead related) |
You're right about those long-horned Highland bastards. We took a road trip from Dunoon up to Loch Ness just because and stopped along the way to take some pictures of one of the bonnie lochs. We started to walk across the field to get a better vantage and nearly got killed by some not so bonnie cows - talk about mad cow.
Given that, I figured Dire would have to adapt and change his tastes. And he wouldn't have to stand on a stool either.
The only time I want to see one of those things again is in the form of a ribeye. Don't get me wrong, I believe there is room for all of God's creatures on this earth. In this case, the room for the Highland mad cow is on my plate, right next to the mashed potatoes and green beans.
And haggis, and a not so wee dram.
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Poster: | robthewordsmith | Date: | Sep 23, 2009 4:06pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Happy vernal equinox (Dead related) |
This post was modified by robthewordsmith on 2009-09-23 23:06:54
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Poster: | jglynn1.2 | Date: | Sep 23, 2009 1:40pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Happy vernal equinox (Dead related) |
That Line about barbed wire fences is funny as hell
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Sep 23, 2009 3:57pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Happy vernal equinox (Dead related) |
SDH and I, along with Cush, must get our excitment rustling cattle and bar-b-que-ing rattlesnakes (although it is absolutely true that we can handle a Gila Monster with our bare hands--just ask the one that used to post hereabouts! # 58 he was...). And you gott admit, we have cool good guys like Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, as well as Cochise and Geronimo (spare me the clarifications on character).
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Poster: | direwolf0701 | Date: | Sep 23, 2009 2:04pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Happy vernal equinox (Dead related) |
(great descriptive post, by the way )
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Poster: | Mandojammer | Date: | Sep 23, 2009 2:13pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Happy vernal equinox (Dead related) |
In all seriousness, there is a fairly well established sustainable community in/near Montague, MA with several CSA (Community Supported Agriculture organizations) a Dairy co-op, and a Poultry co-op. I think there are about 40 families that are working together. We have some very good friends in Montague who were instrumental in getting things going up there. You don't have to move far.
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Poster: | jglynn1.2 | Date: | Sep 23, 2009 3:13pm |
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Poster: | direwolf0701 | Date: | Sep 23, 2009 2:24pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Happy vernal equinox (Dead related) |
hope i dont have to find out TOO soon - lol
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Poster: | jglynn1.2 | Date: | Sep 23, 2009 12:21pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Happy vernal equinox (Dead related) |
I went across the south & Southwest to Cali way back in my College days and we met a guy in a place called La Cueva (a funky half underground restaurant/bar) in real rural Texas (I'm talking about pretty much the middle of nowhere) and we got to talking. Turns out he was born and raised in the Texas desert and had at some point in his life went to Hawaii - he related to us how Hawaii was nice and all but all the water surrounding the Islands got to him and he eventually had to move back to this place in Texas or he would have gone crazy. It was pretty eye opening and really made me realize how provincial people can be, myself included - I simply could not imagine living anywhere else. Don't get me wrong, I love visiting other places but right now I could not think of living anywhere other than Long Island and/or the Northeast in general.
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Sep 23, 2009 12:52pm |
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Poster: | jglynn1.2 | Date: | Sep 23, 2009 1:31pm |
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Sep 23, 2009 3:51pm |
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Poster: | jglynn1.2 | Date: | Sep 23, 2009 4:07pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Happy vernal equinox (Dead related) |
What happens on the boat stays on the boat!
Those swordfish and tuna get mighty good lookin on a long trip!
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Poster: | direwolf0701 | Date: | Sep 23, 2009 12:47pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Happy vernal equinox (Dead related) |
;0
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Poster: | jglynn1.2 | Date: | Sep 23, 2009 1:45pm |
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Poster: | direwolf0701 | Date: | Sep 23, 2009 1:59pm |
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:)
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Poster: | Earl B. Powell | Date: | Sep 23, 2009 5:47pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Happy vernal equinox (Dead related) |
While there, I asked why this phenomenon was so pervasive with Westerners. I now use his response as my roadmap to social dealings with those of the left coast.
His said that most everyone in the west belongs in a very shallow gene pool which emanated from the near insane Yankees that left for the gold fields in the 1850's. Only a couple of generations removed, the insanity hasn't had fully enough time to cleanse itself from the DNA.
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Poster: | veblen | Date: | Sep 23, 2009 7:48pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Happy vernal equinox (Dead related) |
plus there were more than a few cases of governments providing free one-way passage to kalifornia during the gold rush. one popular route was sydney to san francisco...
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Poster: | midnight sun | Date: | Sep 24, 2009 8:39am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Happy vernal equinox (Dead related) |
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Sep 24, 2009 3:09pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Happy vernal equinox (Dead related) |
Ka ching...!!!
Can't believe I happened to post above about his rel'ship with Stegner!
Amazing coincidence???
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Poster: | midnight sun | Date: | Sep 24, 2009 3:29pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Happy vernal equinox (Dead related) |
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Sep 24, 2009 3:42pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Happy vernal equinox (Dead related) |
The amazing thing about him is that Kesey, Ed Abbey and a handful of other Pull Prize winners (seriously) were his students, along with Sandra Day O'Connor and others...and he was very close to L Brower, and others in the conservation movement when it was "pure" (50s and 60s).
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Poster: | grendelschoice | Date: | Sep 24, 2009 3:43pm |
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Incredible.
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Sep 24, 2009 4:08pm |
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Poster: | direwolf0701 | Date: | Sep 24, 2009 8:48am |
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not everyone can be as normal as us NorthEastern folk ;)
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Poster: | midnight sun | Date: | Sep 24, 2009 11:16am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Happy vernal equinox (Dead related) |
for instance, skies could very well be my neighbor's dog (toggle for gender correction, if necessary)
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Poster: | skies | Date: | Sep 24, 2009 11:29am |
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Poster: | midnight sun | Date: | Sep 24, 2009 11:44am |
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i call dibs on the pick of the litter
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Poster: | skies | Date: | Sep 24, 2009 11:54am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Happy vernal equinox (Dead related) |
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Poster: | direwolf0701 | Date: | Sep 23, 2009 12:12pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Happy vernal equinox (Dead related) |
well now, that is just WRONG to say!!!
harumphhhh!!!!
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Poster: | direwolf0701 | Date: | Sep 23, 2009 10:19am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Happy vernal equinox (Dead related) |
All the states west of Colorado should be renamed "Sally")